Most people, who have read White Mischief or are familiar with Kenya’s history, would have heard about the place Happy Valley.. Whereas many books have been written about the Happy Valley set and their rather scandalous lifestyle, few if any have been written about the departure of these infamous people and what has since happened to their houses, farms or properties; decades later.

This is the subject of Juliet Barnes’s book, The Ghosts of Happy Valley. Fascinated by various versions of stories she had heard about happy valley, she decides to visit the area, to find out what happened to the houses and property left by the infamous owners.

At the time she wrote Bread from the Sky, Marie McCarthy had just gone through a divorce and she needed a career change. So she decided to spend some time in Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer. The book is a true story of her travel experience in Togo, West Africa.

Gorillas in the Mist is Dian Fossey’s account of her 16 years studying and living among mountain gorillas in Rwanda and the Congo. She documents her experiences in first person, mixing self effacing anecdotes with a narrative filled with technical clarity, humor, fascinating insight, and a touching sympathy for wildlife. And while she does extensively cover the lives of several groups of gorillas, down to the minutest details, she also brings into focus the attitudes of the people that interact with these animals, and the effects of poaching in Africa’s early post colonial years.